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The capital police chief asked, “Do you have any leads or suspects for the congressional riot?” The officer responded, “I’d like to question the senator wearing high heels and a spandex leopard print dress.” The chief frowned and said…

by cringeyjokesman June 22, 2022, 1:46 pm

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TIL that after the Shah of Iran’s overthrow, he was reluctantly given medical treatment in Panama. Panama assigned him a “militantly Marxist sociology professor” as a chief bodyguard who “spent much time lecturing the Shah on how he deserved his fate” and was charged $21,000 a month for rent.

by whatilearned June 19, 2022, 5:55 pm

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TIL during Hitler’s failed 1923 beer hall putsch, his deputy and later Luftwaffe chief Goring told the crowd held captive in the Munich beer hall they could at least enjoy their beer. The crowd was not happy at that remark. (Source in German)

by whatilearned June 5, 2022, 3:20 pm

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TIL in 1966, Dr Cyril Wecht was the first person to discover that President JFK’s brain had gone missing from the National Archives after his official autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland, 1963. The chief pathologist in Kennedy’s autopsy later admitted he destroyed autopsy notes.

by whatilearned May 26, 2022, 5:55 am

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TIL, The poingnant “Web of Life” Speech supposedly delivered (or written) by Chief Seattle in 1855, was actually an invention of screen writer Ted Perry for the 1972 environmental film *Home*

by whatilearned May 19, 2022, 2:17 pm

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TIL the “Dade” in Miami-Dade county refers to Major Francis Dade who led 110 men to forcibly remove the Seminoles Indians from Florida in 1836 but was the first man killed in an ambush by Chief Miccanopa. The battle was so decisive that the Seminoles only lost 3 men compared to the 108 lost by Dade.

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 7:39 pm

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TIL about Mohed Altrad, a French-Syrian billionaire who doesn’t know when he was born because his mother was assaulted by the tribal chief and died shortly after the birth. Being a Bedouin he had no access to school. He still obtained a doctorate in computer science in Paris thanks to a scholarship.

by whatilearned April 27, 2022, 12:11 pm

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He used to be the village’s chief, until he lost his eye…

by cringeyjokesman April 14, 2022, 7:20 am

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TIL the mother of the last Comanche chief was a white woman who was kidnapped at age 9 & assimilated into the tribe. She later married a chieftain & bore him 3 children before she was found at age 33 & returned to her bio-family. She never accepted white society & committed suicide by starvation.

by whatilearned March 11, 2022, 12:59 pm

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TIL Justice Frankfurter disliked Chief Justice Vinson to such a degree that when the issue of segregation came before the Court and Chief Justice Vinson, a segregationist, suddenly died; Frankfurter remarked on it as: “the first solid piece of evidence I’ve ever had that there really is a God”

by whatilearned March 8, 2022, 8:00 pm

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TIL that the work of Charles Drew, a pioneer in preserving blood, led to large-scale blood bank use, U.S. blood donations to Britons in WWII, and the use of bloodmobiles. He resigned as chief of the first American Red Cross blood bank over a policy that separated the blood of black and white people.

by whatilearned February 13, 2022, 12:56 am

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There was once an ancient tribe that burned their previous chiefs’ thrones whenever they had a new chief…

by cringeyjokesman February 11, 2022, 12:03 am

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